Writing Quotes · Page 195

Writing songs is a stress-buster for me.

— Amanda Seyfried

I was writing a lot even as a kid.

— Hailey Gates

Having someone else write for you is cake!

— Janelle James

I realized that I've always been a storyteller.

— Joely Fisher

Clutter is the disease of American writing,

— William Zinsser

Amanda Ashley is a master storyteller.

— Christine Feehan

I could write stories just as rotten.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.”

— Linda Collison

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

— Anonymous

We live in Sheffield and we write about the things we see here. What else is there to write about?

— Alex Turner

I started writing more like Bossa Nova style songs after moving to L.A.

— Laufey

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

— William Safire

“A writer in pain is as blessed as a couple in rain.”

— J. Alchem

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

— Randy Houser

Great writing fills me with hopeful enthusiasm and never envy.

— Hisham Matar

Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day.

— Chamfort

I don't ever want to be too unhealthy because writing in a show, starring and producing, you need a lot of energy.

— Rebel Wilson

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me…

— David Sedaris

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives…

— Viola Davis

Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.

— Debra Dean

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I read and studied the wild fancies of these writers with delight; they appeared to me treasures known to few besides myself.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

— Saul David

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after…

— Annie Dillard

You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing…

— Kara DioGuardi

In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with…

— Cathleen Schine

“We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you’re not thinking in words…

— Bonnie Friedman

We are 'writers,' we are not supposed to be interested in filthy lucre, we are supposed to be starry eyed artistes. ...…

— Max D. Adams

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying…

— George Orwell

I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was…

— Matthew Zapruder

“What does the absolutely final deadline apply to? What book?" If there was one book that did not cry out for a…

— Martha Grimes

“Some truly bad writing, but brilliantly funny at the same time. "When he was yet a million miles away the bright ring…

— Alan Glasser

“Simplicity saves strength.”

— Amit Kalantri

Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

— Joss Whedon

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

— David Walton

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

— Doris Lessing

Write about what you know, that's what I say.

— Josh Widdicombe

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

— Arundhati Roy

Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.

— George R. R. Martin

I don't know what I think until I write it down.

— Joan Didion